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GEO 101 World Human Geography
Spring 2008
Lecture Outline

Geography
Matters!

Geographies of Ability and Disability / Environmental Perception

Impairment vs. Disability

The Social Model of Disability

    • How Well Does it work?

The disabled body in public space

    • The Built Environment
    • "Ugly Laws"
    • Expectations of disabled people in public space

A Geography of Public Protest: Why RTD Busses have Wheelchair lifts.

Politics of Scale and Mobility

    • Jumping Scale
    • Advertising Mobility

Some General Conclusions on Identity and Space

    • Hybrid Identities

Environmental Perception

    • Cognitive Images/Maps
    • Sense of Place
    • Insider vs. Outsider Perceptions

 

 

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